Sweat-pad for-horse-collars



(No Model.)

B. L. McGLAIN.

SWEAT PAD FOR HORSE GOLLARS.

Patented June 30', 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EDWARD L. MoOLAIN, OF GREENFIELD, OHIO.

SWEAT- PAD FO R- H O RSE-COLLARS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 321,126, dated June 30, 1885.

. Application filed January 20, 1885. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, EDWARD L. MOCLAIN, of Greenfield, in the county of Highland and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Attachments or Fastening, for HorseGollar Sweat-Pads, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide cheap and effective means to be attached to horse-collar sweat-pads for securing the pads to the collar; and my invention consists of a corrugated strap, preferably of rubber, at tached to a sweat-pad, the strip being adapted to be brought around the inner roll of the collar and passed under the hames, so as to be held between the hames and the collar. I prefer to make the attachment thickest at its outer or free end, so it will have a wedging action between the hame and collar; and this also constitutes a feature of my invention.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of a horse-collar, hames, and sweat-pad, the latter provided with my invention, the hames and collar being broken at one side to show the whole of one attachment, the other attachment being shown placed under the hame for holding the pad; and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the attachments removed from the pad.

The hames A, collar B, and sweat-pad O are of the ordinary or of any approved construction, except that the sweat-pads G are provided with my new fastening or attachment D for holding the pads in place under the collar. The fastenings or attachments D are by preference made of flexible rubber, ribbed or corrugated on one or both sides, and secured to the sweat-pads O by stitching or by means of rivets passed through the fastening, or through it and a strip of leather, E, stitched to the pad, as shown in Fig. 1. The fastenings D are by preference ribbed upon both sides, as shown in Fig. 2, and made wedging or tapering in thickness, being made thickest at its outer or free end, as shown clearly in Fig. 2, so that when grasped between the hame and collar there will be no danger of the attachment slipping.

In use the fastenings or attachments D are simply to be brought over the inner roll of the collar and placed under the hames before the hames are buckled, so that when the hames are buckled the attachments will be grasped between the hames and the collar, as shown clearly at the left in Fig. 1. In this manner the sweat-pad is held with great security against the back of the collar, and the attachment is cheap and simple and easy and convenient to handle,

Witnesses:

A. M. MAOKERLEY, H. N. NEwBEcK. 

